Volume 2: Romance of Sugarloaf Mountain; Sambo and His Grapes; Pigs and Potato Club by Isaac Coale, Jr., 1936

 Item — Box: Small Collections 12, Folder: MSS.0928 - 2
Identifier: spc-mss0928-i0002

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Volume 2: Romance of Sugarloaf Mountain; Sambo and His Grapes; Pigs and Potato Club by Isaac Coale, Jr.

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Two volumes. A collection of racist dialect manuscripts by Isaac Coale, Jr. Bradbound into generic oak tag wrappers, one with the label of Isaac Coale, Jr., & Co. on the frontispiece wrap. Typed leaves (with mixed ribbon and carbon pages), with corrections in type and in pencil. Letter from Norman Vincent Peale dated in 1936 lauding the stories bound into the second volume. Signed by the author, at various places, as Isaac Coale, Sambo, or "N***** Jim."

The Baltimore (and later New York City) based Coale, Jr. wrote his book Sambo Stories which was published by Baltimore publisher Williams & Wilkins Company in 1898 with illustrations by Katharine Gassaway, predating Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo (which was published in England) by one year.

Dates

  • Creation: 1936

Full Extent

From the Collection: .1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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